Angela Dorn, Author at BlackHer.us

On Changing Things Through Steady, Loving Confrontation: An Interview With Lynda Blackmon Lowery

by Angela Dorn | Jan 12, 2020 | Our Sheroes, Uncategorized

Photo credit: Robin Cooper/Penguin Random House Our BlackHer Shero of the Week is Lynda Blackmon Lowery, the youngest person to participate in the 1965 march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Because of activists like Lowery, the Voting Rights Act...

Because Representation Matters: An Interview with Sandra Stevenson

by Angela Dorn | Dec 22, 2019 | Our Sheroes

Our BlackHer Shero of the Week is Sandra Stevenson, an award-winning picture editor. For the past 15 years, she’s been a member of The New York Times (The Times) news team. Stevenson has served as picture editor and assistant editor in the photography department and...

On Shifting Power in the Fashion Industry and Being a Black Creative: An Interview with Lisa McFadden

by Angela Dorn | Dec 15, 2019 | Our Sheroes

Photo credit: Victor Mirontschuk Our BlackHer Shero of the Week is Lisa McFadden, founder of Lisa McFadden Millinery. McFadden has worked as a fashion illustrator, fashion and technical designer, patternmaker, and now as a milliner – a hat designer – for her own...

A Supershero for Our Times: Watch Regina King in Watchmen

by Angela Dorn | Dec 8, 2019 | Articles

Please note: This blog post contains spoiler alerts. If you have not yet seen it, check out HBO’s Watchmen, starring Oscar-winning actor Regina King. Like me, you may not be a big fan of most superhero shows or movies. Except for Black Panther (and oddly Thor),...

On Using (and Teaching) the Law to Create Change: An Interview with Tomiko Brown-Nagin

by Angela Dorn | Nov 25, 2019 | Our Sheroes

Our BlackHer Shero of the Week is Tomiko Brown-Nagin, a law professor and dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Brown-Nagin is a scholar in constitutional law and history, and one of four Black women who serve as deans at Harvard...